Today’s Business slang is “One-Ope”
“One-Ope” is the abbreviation of “Operation by one person”, meaning operating a shop or store by one staff.
That is, one staff do all the related jobs such as customer service, payment, cooking, washing the dishes, and cleaning the shop.
No one will help even when some troubles happen, many customers come to the shop at the same time, and he/she get sick suddenly.
The other day at certain chain shop a “One-ope” staff suddenly died due to “Karoushi”(Overwork death) in Japan.
It is difficult to increase the retail price even though COG increased in Japan because of the severe competition in Japan.
Therefore, many shops and stores decrease the number of staff in order to cut their labor cost.
This is constructional problem and need to be solved.
